Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Honolulu, artist - Michael Martin Murphey. Album song Austinology - Alleys of Austin, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 18.10.2018
Record label: Soundly, Wildfire
Song language: English
Honolulu |
When I was three I went to Honolulu |
Dad wore aloha shirts, Mom wore a mumu |
The centipedes are all that I remember |
I think I dropped my toy drum in the cinders |
Down into the mouth of some volcano |
Near Honolulu … |
Grandaddy used to fight in the Pacific fleet |
Grandmother used to say the air was warm and sweet |
But at last we had to go back to the States |
Back to the land of nat’ral gas and rattlesnakes |
Grandaddy stayed and opened up a laundry |
In Honolulu … |
My Honolulu Grandad drove a Cadillac |
He did card tricks then told us how the deck was stacked |
He told us dirty jokes about the naval corps |
And how one day the airplanes started up a war |
And how he buried bodies in long trenches |
In Honolulu |
It used to be so nice |
When he took us on his knee |
And told us about that tropical paradise |
It was all right … |
Someday I’m goin' back to Honolulu |
I’ll wear aloha shirts, she’ll wear a mumu |
Hawaii calls and who am I to stop it |
I think I’ll buy a new toy drum and drop it |
Down into the mouth of some volcano |
In Honolulu |
Aloha oy, aloha boys, aloha toys |
Until we meet again |